Second one rocks! Just recently (one full week now) i have made it a point not to shoot with the auto mode, kinda forcing myself to really learn what all the settings do so the second one intrigues me. What were your setting for the second one? Did you shoot b&w or do that in Photoshop?
the second one was shot in color and is the combination of 2 photos : a long exposure of a few girls running behind the bench and the second of a shorter exposure of the three of us on the bench.